Libgfortran licensing

[Jeffrey A Law]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 13:17, Toon Moene wrote:
> Scanning the ChangeLog (and the one from the then-current "libgfor", the 
> fore-runner of libgfortran) will tell us everything we need to know 
> about contributers to libgfortran prior to Paul Brook's and Steven 
> Bosscher's fork on the 3rd of January 2003.
> 
> If everyone who contributed signed the copyright on his contributions 
> over to the FSF, I think we are legally in the clear to change the 
> license on the files involved.
Basically right.

The only hitch I see would be if someone had a copyright assignment
on file, but the assignment didn't cover all their work.  That's
one of the reason I like the "past and future" style assignments
so much...

So not only do you have to verify the contributor has an assignment
on file, you have to verify precisely what is covered by their
assignment.  Does it cover just past work, a specific set of changes,
past and future changes to a particular set of files, past and
future to everything in the library, etc etc.

jeff